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PINNED Respect $HOME/.config/go/env
After adding eval $(/path/to/goz-env) in .profile, each time I log in to OMVS, I get 3 or 4 lines about $COMPILER_PATH. Can you add config to turn this off, please? Second, even if I have $HOME/.config/go/env (per XDG spec), go env says that `go` ...

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real in Storage Repository as replacement for EQAUOPT files

As of today, the performance using the EQAUOPT file as profile for starting up Debug Tool may be very CPU consuming in specific cases.1:Delayed Debugging, if activated and the pattern match code does not match immediately but somewhere down the ch...
over 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Internally Indexed RDS Tables within SAzOS

The Systems Automation(SAzOS) tool would greatly benefit from being able to support Table data that is Internally Indexed. Currently the CREATE sub-function within INGRDS does not support creating tables that are internally indexed. There needs to...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

Use of "Bypass extent checking function " for DEDB Access to improve performance under many parallel I/Os on the same AREA

Our customer's systems are experiencing lock timeout issues and have seen DASD response times increase during certain times of high transaction rates.About over 100 FP areas from each of the three data sharers have been consolidated and updated wi...
over 5 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 29 Future consideration

Successful initialization messages from Spark Started tasks

When Spark-master & Spark-Worker are successfully started as started Tasks on z/OS, they should write messages to SYSLOG to indicate that those spark components have started successfully. Such messages are important for System Automation produ...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z Platform for Apache Spark 1 Future consideration

CTGSMFRD provided pre-compiled

All z/OS customers have COBOL compiler installed but not all have C compiler. Could a pre-compiled CTGSMFRD (SMF viewer sample CTGSMFRD) provided with the product or with a support-pack?
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future consideration

MQ Series - add support for the WebSphere MQ v.6 monitoring functions for Queues and Channels.

TPFUG_Req_Number: MQ07001FContact Originator Id: bryan.alison@worldspan.comAbstract: This MQ Series enhancement will add support for providing statistical information related to real-time queue and channel usage, in conjunction with the local Queu...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

AD builder - Dynamic resolution of values transferred through pointers (addresses)

System: Application Discovery Client Product We want to use Application Discovery for all of our z/OS applications. Description: Application Discovery Build Client does not have support compilation for dynamic resolution of values transferred thro...
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

CICS shutdown initiates phaseout of all the JVMSERVERs prior to PLTSD pgm execution.

Running under CICS TS 5.4 with WebSphere Data Interchange (WDI) which provides PLT shutdown program EDIJSTOP. However, CICS is setting the JVMSERVER status to PHASEOUT before passing control to PLTSD pgm, hence EDIJSTOP is unable to run, hence EDI...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Datetime arithmetic in data studio generated SQL

Our team uses the MDS Data Studio in Eclipse for generating reports on SMF 30 records. Reports are requested by Test Architects and therefore require us to neatly export them with the "Export..." feature. However, the SQL that gets generated in MD...
over 5 years ago in IBM Open Data Analytics for z/OS (IzODA) / Mainframe Data Service 0 Future consideration

Payload string values that are too long cause Web Service and API runtime errors

CICS requires a maximum length to be specified (implicitly or explicitly) for all string fields in Web Services and APIs. However, interfacing systems often don't have max length restrictions on strings (especially if they are not mainframe-based ...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration